Feature Story: Lecture explores women who went against the grain to homestead on the prairies

The opening of the prairie west to non-indigenous people meant great new opportunities to homestead – if you were a man. It was a different story for non-indigenous women. This year’s Stapleford Lecture brings to life the struggles of those women who were denied the right to homestead following the...

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Main Author: External Relations, University of Regina
Format: Other/Unknown Material
Language:English
Published: External Relations, University of Regina 2017
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10294/8015
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Summary:The opening of the prairie west to non-indigenous people meant great new opportunities to homestead – if you were a man. It was a different story for non-indigenous women. This year’s Stapleford Lecture brings to life the struggles of those women who were denied the right to homestead following the treaties with First Nations. “The Gender of Homesteading: Women and the Contest for Land on the Canadian Prairies,” is presented by Dr. Sarah Carter from the University of Alberta. Staff no